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- This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed…
- God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a moral law, they…
- We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle…
- If that's the price of getting together, then I'll be damned if I want to live on the same earth with any human beings! If…
- Consider the reasons which make us certain that we are right, but not the fact that we are certain. If you are not convinced, ignore…
- If you want to know the one reason that's taking me back, I'll tell you: I cannot bring myself to abandon to destruction all the…
- You're not sorry. You could've been here if you made the effort. But when did you ever make an effort for anybody but yourself? You're…
- Why had we let it go? Why had we both been condemned...to an exile among dreary strangers who had made us give up all desire…
- Mr. Ward, what is it that the foulest bastards on earth denounce us for, among other things? Oh yes, for our motto of 'Business as…
- Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here…
- When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong,…
- Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's…
- Let us destroy, but don't let us pretend that we are commiting an act of virtue.
- And questions give us no rest. We know not why our curse makes us seek we know not what, ever and ever. But we cannot…
- It was the only thing I ever really wanted. And that’s the sin that can’t be forgiven--that I hadn’t done what I wanted. It feels…
- It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now…
- If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make…
- Fransisco, you're some kind of very high nobility, aren't you?" He answered, "Not yet. The reason my family has lasted for such a long time…
- You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of…
- Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their…
- I am older than you. Believe me, there is no other way to live on earth. Men are not open to truth or reason. They…
- Toohey: "Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear…
- We, Equality 7-2521, were not happy in those year in the Home of the Students. It was not that the learning was too hard for…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong